This was the moment Guildford shoppers were given a treat when a singing flash mob gathered at Guildford High Street, attracting a huge crowd.

The flash mob began at Tunsgate Arch on Saturday afternoon (September 23) with choirmaster Angela MacKenzie singing You’ll Never Walk Alone before more and more members of her Show Choir joined her in a rousing rendition of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic.

Mrs MacKenzie, who has started five ‘Show Choirs’ - in Banstead, Dorking, West Byfleet, Cobham and Horsham - organised the event to promote a new choir which launches in Guildford on Monday evening (September 26).

Angela MacKenzie leading her show choir on Guildford High Street

She said: “I woke up in the middle of the night last week and I just thought, we should sing ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ in Guildford High Street. I thought it would be great for the choirs and it would help promote our new choir opening in Guildford tonight.”

Mrs MacKenzie, who is a professional singer and singing teacher, started her first show choir two years ago in her home town of Banstead. She now has five choirs and said she was delighted with the reaction from shoppers on the high street.

The show choir attracted a big crowd on Guildford High Street

“I thought it would be pretty good,” she said. “But I was just gobsmacked by how many people we got. It was a magnificent crowd. In the video and pictures you can see lots of people coming shouting and cheering.

She added: “I love Guildford even more now having done that.”

Mrs MacKenzie is inviting people to the first ever meeting of the Guildford choir on Monday evening (September 26) at Shalford Village Hall at 8pm. If the choir gains enough members it will meet at the same venue from every.

Angela MacKenzie from Show Choirs accepts the applause from the Guildford public on the high street

Mrs MacKenzie said: “It is a free taster session for anyone to come and see what it is like. So come along and have a good old sing song.”